We are looking for an administrative project manager to a PARIBAS-funded international project: COastal biodiversity RESilience to increasing extreme events in Central AMerica (CORESCAM): implications for regional conservation and policy making Principal Investigators: Dr. Ana Rey CSIC-MNCN, Dr. Miguel B. Araújo CSIC-MNCN, Dr. Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta, CIFOR 1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION A . . . [ Read More ]
Growing Green in Europe
Miguel Araújo is participating in a round the table discussion at the NOVA University of Lisbon's School of Business and Economics to talk about EU's new Green Deal. Registrations here. . . . [ Read More ]
Our success has depended on unlimited access to planetary credit
My recent interview to the magazine Lisboa (page 54, sorry in Portuguese alone) where I talk about broad issues of sustainability, biogeography, climate change, economics, and how these issues are linked together through the concept of metabolism. . . . [ Read More ]
Post doc – Predicting Community Trophic Structures in Time
2 years postdoc position in the context of the PredWeb (Predicting Food-Web Biogeography). Project, funded through the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Background: Biogeography examines distributions of species and communities at broad geographical scales of extent and it is often assumed that interactions among species are second-order effects, with the relationship . . . [ Read More ]
Climate determination of trophic structures – A tribute to Alexander von Humboldt
This is our little tribute to Alexander von Humboldt while disseminating the results of our recent paper in Nature Communications about climate determination of animal community trophic structures. https://youtu.be/1WwGVnNFJOY . . . [ Read More ]
Geopolitics of climate change
Debate on the Geopolitics of Climate Change at the European Ecological Federation Meeting in Lisbon (July 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzeAXVoVMbM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3rXir74XT1ZZbvcHDN1j6iJR_AwXwp4P_38CbMbywqnyvrVaUjXTqZiBY . . . [ Read More ]
La Caixa PhD studentship to work in global conservation prioritisation
La Caixa Foundation is funding a number of PhD projects in a variety of domains. I am offering one such projects for a highly motivated student in conservation biology. The project title is "Global biodiversity conservation under climate and land use change" and can be found in the link below. I look forward to receiving good applications from committed students. The projects can be searched in . . . [ Read More ]
Workshop: Climate Change for Journalists
Happy to have accepted the challenge by Ricardo Garcia to co-organise this workshop for journalists. It is important that journalists acquire the competencies to communicate complex issues, like climate change, with objectivity. Thrilled that the idea was well received by EEA Grants Portugal. It will take place in February 2020 and be opened to journalists based in Portugal and Norway. The . . . [ Read More ]
Iberian Ponds
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Da viabilidade da vida na Terra
Artigo publicado no semanário Expresso, Crónica do Convidado, Alma Grande, dia 25 de Maio de 2019. É difícil compreender por que razão alguns pretendem partidarizar a problemática ambiental. Será que uma parte do espectro político não se preocupa com a qualidade do ar que respiramos e da água que bebemos e o outro sim? Mesmo assumindo como legítima a postura de quem nega a gravidade da . . . [ Read More ]